CDO SEA Live Series - February Edition 2022
Does Your Data and Analytics Strategy Have a Clear Value Proposition?
Hosted by Factor
- 500 attendees
- 21600 hours
Overview
A value proposition is a core component of a modern, actionable data and analytics strategy.Join us to kick start 2022 as ensure our strategy is clear and aligned to our business objectives. Join this months edition to learn:
How to navigate through complexity to set short, medium and long-term data strategies
Intelligent data transformation starts with a strong data-driven strategy
How to implement intelligent data transformation strategies aligned with their overall digitalisation strategy, to get the most out of your data and transform your business models
What to expect
- Virtual Attendees 160+
- Sessions 4+
- Speakers 3+
- Live Interactions 1:1
What we will cover
- Relevancy Understanding how your product solves customers' problems or improves their situation
- Quantified Value How to deliver specific results to drive growth
- Strategy Across Our Organisation How can we align our D&A transformation across the entire organisational strategic vision
- Implementation What resources, tools and support do we need to drive best practice implementation
Agenda
- Thought Leadership: How To Formulate and Implement a Winning AI Strategy(Plenary) Today most organisations rely on data-driven insights to make critical operational and strategic decisions. But given the complexity and vastness of the modern enterprise data ecosystem, finding the right data set and extracting actionable insights is an extremely complicated and time-consuming process. That’s where data virtualisation can be used to abstract that complexity and introduce simplicity. Data Virtualisation is a modern data integration technique that uses a single unified semantic layer to give you visibility into all of your data assets so that they can be better leveraged across the business.Attend this session to understand how data virtualisation can be used to; Complete the self-service model by allowing business users to easily discover data for their specific business purpose Promote trust in data and encourage re-use of existing data assets Apply consistent security and governance policies across the enterprise data landscape
- Keynote: How to Tackle Challenges and Align your Data Strategy with Execution(Plenary) The universe of data and modelling has changed vastly over the past few years. The volume of information is growing rapidly, while opportunities to expand insights by combining data are accelerating. Bigger and better data give companies both more panoramic and more granular views of their business environment. Join this session to understand how we can: Source data creatively Get the necessary IT support and advocacy Develop business-relevant analytics that can be put to use
- Connected Intelligence: Data Science in Operations(Plenary) Having an analytical insight is one thing, but actually doing something about it is something else entirely. Today’s fast-changing business climate demands real-time visibility and up-to-the-minute recommendations from data and analytics. This in turn depends on (a) clearly defined projects, (b) data acquisition, blending, exploration, (c) feature engineering, model training, evaluation, (d) model deployment, monitoring and rebasing. In this presentation, I provide a tour of this end-end data science lifecycle and key components, including an agile data fabric and catalog, a data science modeling environment, model operations and interactive visual analytics on streaming and accumulating data. I will illustrate this flow with case studies in manufacturing and financial services, and describe the emerging world of human-centered AI in context.
- Keynote: Wanted - Data Scientists: The Search for ' Tech Unicorns '(Plenary) Sourcing well-skilled data scientists can be challenging for CDO's. In this discussion we will be discussing the ongoing problem of finding these ' Tech Unicorns' across South-East Asia. Join this session to gain insights into: The war on talent across and what that really means Best practice approaches Challenges and lessons learnt
- What's The Big Deal About Data Observability?(Plenary) Due to the ongoing exploding supply of data, enterprises must keep constant watch over their data and the pipelines through which it is ingested, prepared, and otherwise made fit for operational uses. Many enterprises have optimized data ingestion processes but experience issues with data management and data reliability. Data observability enables organizations to continually track, correlate, assess, predict, manage, and optimize the health of their data systems in operation. It is an essential tool for monitoring the metrics—such as data availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance—that businesses apply to ensure data teams meet the increasing demand for real-time data insights, data consumers trust the data they use to make business decisions, and executives ensure data delivery and pipeline performance meet business requirements. This session will cover best practices for using multidimensional data observability to monitor and optimize operational data pipelines and how to: Make the strategic case for data observability Identify the chief business metrics of data observability Use automation to scale data identification, reliability, quality and management Instrument the enterprise data infrastructure for comprehensible observability Use intelligent observability to augment data pipeline professionals’ productivity
- Keynote: How to Shift Your Internal Operating Systems as a Leader(Plenary) High performance is an inside job. What is your current default way of thinking? And does it help or hinder what you’re building as a leader? Ram Castillo will share tools, techniques and frameworks to access empowered, value-aligned behaviour shifts. Join this session to learn: Why our results start with our mind How to identify behaviours that aren’t serving us What to do when our thoughts and beliefs need to change
- Unleash Data Democracy: Drive knowledge Sharing and Collaboration(Plenary) Learn how a data system of engagement helps combat inefficiencies and ensures trusted data is accessed and used in a compliant way. Eliminate the bottleneck of having IT as the gatekeeper of all data, thus enabling the entire organisation to become data and insight driven.
- Roundtables / Networking Break(Plenary) Roundtable 1 - How can CDOs Increase Observability, Cost Savings and Optimisation? Roundtable 2 - Digital Transformation Journey - Data as a Strategic Asset Roundtable 3 - BI & Data Trends 2022: What’s impacting ASEAN
- Keynote: Engineering Data Privacy to Enable Trust, Governance and Compliance(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into: Enable effective scalable data privacy How to be customer data focused Best practice approaches Challenges and lessons learnt
- Prioritising Data as a Strategic Asset(Plenary) Data is a critical business asset, whether that's realized to its full potential is up to the business. How an enterprise prioritizes data as a strategic asset will determine its survival, growth potential, and competitive advantage. Having a true data management strategy to ensure quality, trustworthy data at scale will be key for businesses to drive increased revenue and outperform competitors. Join Rex Ahlstrom; CTO, EVP Innovation & Growth at Syniti, as he discussed on what are the cost and implication of bad data and how with improved data management, business executives can then make more informed decisions. Attendees will walk away with: ● Understanding data’s significance & value - why is it so important for businesses today? ● How data quality and company success are inextricably linked ● Combining quality data with the right choice of emerging tech to improve competitive advantage
- Panel: Storytelling Through Data to Make Informed Business Decisions(Plenary) Data storytelling offers a more engaging means of communicating findings than BI reporting or data visualisation alone. This trend is an extension of the now dominant self-service model of BI, combining data visualisation with narrative techniques. What is a data story? When and how should data storytelling be used? What new skills and techniques are needed to create compelling data stories?This panel will hear insights from leading data leaders across the region on how data can drive business outcomes and meaningful insights through successful storytelling: Using data and analytics to influence stakeholders at all levels How to shape data into a narrative to help reveal findings and emerging trends How to use data storytelling, data visualisation and dashboards to think differently about its impacts on the wider enterprise? What are the data & digital literacy skills required in a hyper digitalised and data-driven era?
- Thought Leadership: 2022: The end of Passive BI(Plenary) According to PwC, nearly 4 out of 5 CEOs believe that remote collaboration will last after the pandemic. How will trends like these impact your business – and what should you do to get ahead of them? Join us in this session and learn how and why organizations are shifting their focus from passive BI to Active Intelligence, where we’ll cover what’s emerging right now, including: Evolution of the dashboard Data Mesh: New fabric for distributed data Distributed Clouds emerge Use of application automation to trigger action
- Keynote: Data Insights and Foresight as Pillars of Compliance(Plenary) Join this session to gain insights into: Leverage data insights to engage your stakeholders Organise data using the language of the business Present data to tell an accurate story and prescribe actions to improve your business
- Does Your Data and Analytics Strategy Have a Clear Value Proposition?(Plenary) Being able to navigate through complexity to set short-, medium- and long-term data strategies Intelligent data transformation starts with a strong data-driven strategy How to implement intelligent data transformation strategies aligned with their overall digitalization strategy, to get the most out of your data and transform your business models.
Speakers
Gareth Lewis · Head of Production, Factor Creatively driven, strategic thinker, with a passion for story-telling & story-doing. Working to helping business leaders connect through meaningful and engaging experiences.
Richard Koh · Area Vice President, Confluent Richard is passionate about helping organizations unleash the power of open source solutions. He is currently the Area Vice President for Confluent, responsible for business development, go to market strategies and growth in the Asia region. Prior to joining Confluent, Richard spent eight years with Red Hat and was responsible for the ASEAN region, during which he worked with many enterprises to embark on their transformational journey using open source at scale. Richard holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore.
Michael O’Connell · Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Michael O’Connell - Chief Analytics Officer @TIBCO Michael O'Connell is the Chief Analytics Officer at TIBCO Software. Michael manages the TIBCO Data Science team, a group of ~30 data science experts and practitioners. He works closely with his team to deliver an evolving set of AI-apps and Tech Tools across a number of industries. These solutions span the worlds of science and engineering through customer and marketing analytics. Michael has a broad set of current interests including asset heath and optimization; modeling & simulation including digital twins and anomaly detection; and API-led, AI app dev. Recent projects include digital twin apps with the Mercedes F1 racing team, and a real-time visual data science app on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Rex Ahlstrom · CTO, EVP Innovation & Growth, Syniti Seasoned executive with strategic vision and ability to execute. Highly successful in leading organizations during growth and turnaround stages through influence and action. Operational experience across a broad range of executive roles including CEO, CSO, CTO, CMO, global operations, strategic partnerships, technology and strategy. History of delivering results based on long-range planning with a high degree of accuracy. Built corporate structures and executive teams from the ground up; extremely low attrition rates, high morale and company loyalty. Financially savvy with full P&L responsibility. Diverse market and business development expertise across Enterprise Software, Cloud, ERP, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Aerospace & Defense sectors. BSEE and MSEE degrees. Specialties: • Creative, strategic thinker on a broad range of businesses and technologies • Complex M&A, contract negotiation and partnership strategy experience • P&L responsibility including raising capital across private and venture networks • Due diligence experience in evaluating businesses/investment opportunities for VC firms • Deep technical and engineering background within many market segments • Continual focus on revenue growth and cost containment
Benedict Benoit · Area Vice President, APAC, Collibra I have +10 years of customer-facing experience across four continents (North America, Asia, Oceania and Europe) with a track record of consistently delivering high-value client solutions, providing personalized service and overachieving targets. With roots in Belgium, I have a passion for opening and growing new (international) markets and growing business from the ground up via direct and channel sales in a high-growth environment. Currently, I'm working on expanding Collibra in the APAC region.Grant Case · Director of Sales Engineering, Dataiku Highly motivated professional with advanced finance expertise, marketing analytics experience, and leadership ability who has consistently received top performance ratings and influenced decision-making both horizontally and vertically across organizations.
Lu Luc · Head of Data Products & Transformation, Westpac Analytics, decisioning and technology leader. I help organisations become intelligent businesses. This is possible by rethinking how data and analytics can be combined with decisioning, machine learning and business acumen to create systems that automatically detect, understand and react as customer, external and business events occur. I take holistic accountability for data & analytics, from strategy to operating model, architecture, information management, monetisation, engineering, talent development and data privacy & security. My experience is global, having worked in Australia, Asia and Europe in the Technology, Energy, Banking, Capital Markets, Retail and Public sectors. Experience: - Westpac - Head of Data Products & Transformation - Chief Data Officer - One Mount Group - Executive Manager Data & Decision Engineering - CBA - Data & Decisioning Platform Manager - AGL Energy - Data & Analytics Lead - AGL Energy - Director - Advanced Data & Analytics at EYC3 - Financial Services IT Advisory Senior Manager at EY EMEA - SAP EIM Consulting Manager for UK and Ireland - Principal Consultant for BusinessObjects in the EMEA region - Data warehouse lead at Macquarie Bank
Karen Espinel · Chief Compliance Officer, AXA Atty. Karen Jill M. Espineli was the Assistant Corporate Secretary and Head of Legal and Third Party Recovery of Paramount Life & General Insurance Corporation (PLGIC). She also held the post of Chief Compliance Officer and Data Protection Officer from 1 January 2017 until she left the company in September 2019. From March 2011 to July 2014, Atty. Espineli provided consultancy services for NOW Corporation, its affiliates and subsidiaries, including NOW Telecom Company, Inc. and i-Resource Consulting International, Inc. NOW Corporation is a publicly-listed Philippine company engaged in Telecommunications, Media (except mass media), and Technology. From June 2013 to July 2014, she was the Corporate Secretary of GHT Network, Inc., a broadcasting company. She was also appointed as Corporate Secretary of the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication, Inc. from October 2013 to July 2014. From May 2009 to March 2011, she was the Head of the Legal Department of Almeda, Inc., a company engaged in real estate activities. She also provided litigation support for the estate proceedings of the estate of Ponciano L. Almeda, one of the incorporators of Almeda, Inc. Atty. Espineli obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines, Diliman and her degree in Political Science from the same university.
Partners
- TIBCO TIBCO Software unlocks the potential of real-time data for making faster, smarter decisions. Our Connected Intelligence Platform seamlessly connects any application or data source; intelligently unifies data for greater access, trust, and control; and confidently predicts outcomes in real-time and at scale. Learn how solutions to our customers’ most critical business challenges are made possible by TIBCO at www.tibco.com
- Syniti Syniti enables agile enterprises with silo-free enterprise data management that helps turn complex data challenges into competitive advantages. With a unified, learning platform and one of the world’s largest teams of data-focused experts, enterprises and global alliance partners choose Syniti when they require trusted data to ignite business growth and reduce risks. Syniti is a portfolio company of BridgeGrowth Partners LLC. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in 25 countries around the world, Syniti operates in all global regions and industry verticals, and maintains a 99.7% client success rate across thousands of complex data projects and initiatives.
- Dataiku Dataiku is the centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI. By providing a common ground for data experts and explorers, a repository of best practices, shortcuts to machine learning and AI deployment/management, and a centralized, controlled environment, Dataiku is the catalyst for data-powered companies. Customers like Unilever, GE, and Comcast use Dataiku to ensure they are moving quickly and growing exponentially along with the amount of data they’re collecting. By removing roadblocks, Dataiku ensures more opportunity for business-impacting models and creative solutions, allowing teams to work faster and smarter.
- Acceldata Acceldata has created the world's first Data Observability Cloud, helping data-driven enterprises achieve operational excellence, innovation agility, and higher returns on data investment. Modern enterprises increasingly rely on embedded analytics and AI systems to power their business operations and decisions. Building, operating, and optimizing these systems, however, can be overwhelming. Traditional monitoring tools, while effective for web applications and microservices, don’t provide sufficient insight into distributed data, processing, and pipelines.
- Cloudera At Cloudera, we believe data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We deliver an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. We enable people to transform vast amounts of complex data into clear and actionable insights to enhance their businesses and exceed their expectations. Cloudera is leading hospitals to better cancer cures, securing financial institutions against fraud and cyber-crime, and helping humans arrive on Mars — and beyond. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open-source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
- Qlik Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. Qlik provides an end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud platform to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik does business in more than 100 countries and serves over 50,000 customers around the world.
- Collibra Collibra is the Data Intelligence company. We accelerate trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights and algorithms to all Data Citizens. Our cloud-based platform connects IT and the business to build a data-driven culture for the digital enterprise. Global organizations choose Collibra to unlock the value of their data and turn it into a strategic, competitive asset. We have a diverse global footprint, with offices in the U.S., Belgium, Australia, Czech Republic, France, Poland and the U.K. Visit our website at Collibra.com
- Factor Sit-Down helps senior thought leaders and executives, stakeholders, advisors and suppliers, interested and passionate about what they do. With years of track record in the business matching services industry we specialise in helping creative business build, change and maintain their profile. With years of enthusiastic and passionate experience of working with fortune 500 companies and over 125000 CXOs, we now are one of the leading providers, enabling government agencies and enterprises advance their operational initiatives through engagements with those facing the same challenges.
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